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Esther M Friedman

Faculty Associate, Training Faculty

Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

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Esther Friedman is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center, where she also serves as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dr. Friedman is a sociologist whose research examines how families and communities facilitate the health and wellbeing of older adults. Much of her recent work focuses on family caregiving and long-term care. She is currently leading a study for which she is collecting and analyzing new data on the social support networks of family caregivers to persons with dementia.

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Esther M Friedman, Scott R. Beach, Richard Schulz. 2023. Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending at Older Ages: Do Caregiving Arrangements Matter?. Journal of Applied Gerontology 42(5):1013-1021.
Kim, Hansol, Beach, Scott R, Esther M Friedman, Donovan, Heidi, Schulz, Richard. 2023. Effects of Childcare, Work, and Caregiving Intensity on Male and Female Family Caregivers. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Birditt,Kira S, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
Friedman,Esther M, Houle, Jason N, Cagney,Kathleen Anne, Slaughter, Mary E, Shih, Regina A. 2021. The Foreclosure Crisis, Community Change, and the Cognitive Health of Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(5):956-967.